Question:
At what point are you no longer at risk for complications?

I am 8 months post-op, feel fantastic, and have lost 80 pounds (lap RNY)I'm just wondering if I will ever be able to "relax" and not worry about complications...I've had none at all and hope never too, but part of me is still worried? wouldn't the chances of complications lesson as time goes by?    — [Anonymous] (posted on August 5, 2001)

August 5, 2001
Well, that's a toughie. We have a fatal disease: morbid obesity. There is no cure, there is only remission. By complications, do you mean like leak & pneumonia--surgical risk? Or risk of another surgery? We're always at risk of another surgery, just as we were pre-WLS. Hernia, plastics, revision, adhesions gettting crazy, bowel obstruction, and regain from over confidence or wrong surgery for "me". I think there is a time for not "waiting for the other shoe to drop", but I don't know that I will ever "relax" completely, even though I've had a working surgery for years now.
   — vitalady

August 6, 2001
Never. That's why we have to agree to life-long follow-up. "Complications" can pop up anytime.
   — [Anonymous]